Initial Storyline Ideas

Myself and my group have been brainstorming ideas so that we have something prepared for when the cinema get back to us about filming. We game up with this rough storyline that can also be found on Laura's blog.
We liked the idea of incorporating the 50s into the start of the film by editing the footage so that it will be in black and white and also using 50s music to set the time period.

The start of our short film begins with old style black and white footage of the cinema in the 50's, showing a group of teenagers going in there to enjoy a film. News paper clippings could then come flying onto the screen showing how the group of young teens never came out of the cinema and went missing ever since. A black screen then appears saying that the case was suspiciously closed and now in 2013 it marks the 50th Anniversary.

It will then returns back to the present day, a young girl becomes very interested in the case and wants to find out more. She decides to go to the cinema with her friend with her hand-held camera to question the cinema owner and find out more. Everything looks normal and she meets a man who claims to own the cinema. After asking the cinema owner what happened the day the teens went missing he begins to tell stories about the old Gaol that once stood there before his cinema. He thinks that the prisoners of the Gaol still walk the screening room and he believes that the paranormal were responsible for the missing teens. The young girl begins to believe what he is saying especially after unusual things happening during her tour around the cinema.

The end of the film depicts the young girl begins to explore on her own and finds a golden watch with one of the teenagers names carved into the back of it lying in the owners office. She immediately begins to panic and finds herself running out of the cinema. She contacts the police and urges them to come back to the cinema with her and arrest this owner for being responsible for the missing teens. When they arrive at the cinema there is nothing there but an abandoned building. Nobody was in there. Including the 'owner.' She couldn't understand what had happened and it wasn't until later that night when she was searching for answers on the Internet she stumbles across a website with the history of the cinema. There she sees the cinema owners face but there he wasn't a cinema owner. He was a prisoner of the Gaol who had killed himself in his cell before the teens even went missing. The last shot could show the young girls face staring blankly at the screen. The audience are left with many questions and it's up to them to form their own answers.

This is our first attempt at coming up with a whole story and we all feel that even though it still needs a lot of attention it would make an interesting film.
Hopefully we will hear from the cinema soon so that we can continue to brainstorm ideas and begin to make plans.